Nursery-chair.



A. K. NIXON.

NURSERY CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED 11mm, 1912.

1,085,468 Patented Jan. 27, 1914.

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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1912.

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A. K. NIXON.

NURSERY CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1912.

PatentedJan. 27, 1914.

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NITEI) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBION K. NIXO1\T,OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

NURSERY-CHAIR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBION K. NIXON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Nursery-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to nursery chairs, and it has for its prime object to produce a simple and efficient chair or supporting device which may be used in connection with any ordinary modern closet bowl or seatto the exclusion of the vessel usually employed in connection with nursery chairs, thereby promoting cleanliness and sanitation, as well as the comforts and well being of children, mothers and nurses.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and efiicient device of the character described which may be readily adjusted for use on a toilet seat'or closet bowl and which may also be readily adjusted to accommodate children of various sizes.

A still further object of the invention is to produce a device of the character described which may be readily disassembled and packed in a small space for transportation.

Vith these and other ends in view which I will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modification within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing the improved device applied to a closet bowl. Fig. 2 is a top plan view showing the device applied to a toilet seat. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the device detached. Fig. 4: is a bottom plan view. Fig. 5 is a perspective detail view of a portion of the supporting legs and the foot rest. Fig. (5 is a detail view of the top rail detached. Fig. 7 is a perspective detail view of the seat and related parts, detached. Fig. 8 is a sectional detail View taken through a portion of theseat and the back Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 1, 1912.

Patented Jan. 27, 1914. Serial No. 700,992.

support, showing the dowel whereby said parts are connected. Fig. 9 is a front View showing a modified form of the invention. Fig. 10 is a side elevation illustrating said modification. Fig. 11 is a sectional detail view taken on the line l1l1 in Fig. 9.

Corresponding part-s in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference. The seat 1, which is preferably made of wood and which may be of any suitable shape and dimensions, is provided on the underside thereof with a plurality of cushions 2 made preferably of India rubber and secured in place by ordinary wood screws, said cushions being adapted to rest On top of the bowl or seat in connection with which the invent-ion is used for the purpose of avoiding marring of the same. The seat is provided with clamp devices extending obliquely in a rearward direction, each of said devices including a strap 3 secured by means of screws or similar fastenings on the underside of the seat, the projecting portion of such strap being provided with a slot 4: for the passage of a bolt 5 having a nut 6, said bolt being used for securing in position a hook-shaped clamp member 7 which may thus be adjusted to engage the upper portion of the rim of an ordinary toilet bowl, as shown in Fig. 1. \Vhen the device is used in connection with a toilet seat, as in Fig. 2, such seat may be provided with screw eyes 8 adapted to extend through the slots 4 in the straps 3 fro-m which the hook-shaped clamp members and the connecting bolts have been removed, the attachment being effected by simply turning the screw eyes at right angles to the slots at through which they have been projected. Secured adjacent to the aperture 9 of the seat at the front end of the same is a shield 10 which may be made of sheet metal, of rubber cloth, or other suitable water-proof material.

Secured upon the sides of the seat and extending forwardly therefrom are supporting members or brackets 11 provided with seat supporting angle iron stitfeners 11 and with the front ends of which the leg members 12 are connected by fastening means, such as bolt-s 0r rivets 13. The leg members 12 which are spaced from the seat by the bracket members 11 extend upwardly and downwardly from the said bracket members, and said leg members are provided with verticalslots 14 for the passage of bolts 15 whereby the extension leg members 16 are adjustably connected with the leg members 12. The slots 14 also serve for the passage of bolts 17 whereby triangular brackets 18 are secured adjustably on the leg members 12, one on each of said leg members. The brackets 18 serve to support a foot rest 19 which is pivotally mounted on screws 20, adapting said foot rest to accommodate itself to the position of the feet. The foot rest may also obviously be raised or lowered to suit the size of the child, and the extension members 16 may be raised or lowered to accommodate the device to closet bowls or toilet seats of different heights. It will also be seen that the legs 12 being spaced from the seat by the bracket 11 will support the seat firmly and securely without making the seat large and unwieldy.

Secured upon the upwardly extending ends of the leg members 12 is a top rail 21 which preferably consists of a strap of metal curved or bent to approximate U-shape, as shown, and provided at the front ends thereof with return bends 22. This top rail is connected with the upper ends of the leg members 12 by bolts or rivets, and it serves to retain the back and side support. The latter is composed of a plurality of strips 23 strung on cords or wires 24, said strips being preferably spaced apart by spacing blocks 25. Connected with some of thestrips near their upper ends are hook-shaped clamps 26 adapted to catch over the top rail. Some of the strips 24.- are provided at their lower ends with dowel pins 27 adapted to engage recesses or sockets 28 formed in the upper side of the seat for the reception of said pins. The strips of which the side and back support is composed may be of any desired length, but it is preferred to make some, if not all, of said strips of suitable length to support the head as well as the back of the child. The top rail is reinforced by means of a. brace 42, the lower end of which is bent to form a flange 13 resting on the seat rail on which it may be secured by a wood screw "44, the upper end of said brace being connected with the top rail by a fastening member, such as a bolt or rivet 45.

The top rail is provided with eyes 30 with which a strap 31 may be detachably connected by means of terminal hooks, eyes or snaps, indicated at 32, for the purpose of retaining the child in the seat.

As will be seen from the foregoing description taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed, I have provided a very simple and efiicientnursery chair or seat which may be readily applied to and used in connection with any ordinary modern closet bowl or toilet seat, thereby dispensing with a chamber vessel usually employed. In some instances, however, notably in case of sickness when a child is too ill to permit of its being carried from the room, it may be found desirable to use the device in connection with a vessel which may be conveniently carried to and from the sick room. This involves the modified structure illustrated particularly in Figs. 9, 10 and 11, by reference to which it will be seen that the leg members 12 are provided at their lower ends'with laterally extending brackets 35 having upturned flanges 36, said brackets being apertured for the passage of extension members 37 which are made of round iron and which are bent at their lower ends to form floor engaging feet 38. The upper ends of the extension members 37 are provided with handies 39 of wood or other suitable material, said handles being made spherical or of other convenient shape. The extension members may be retained at various adjustments by means of screw hooks 40 that engage said members and extend through the flanges 36, the threaded shanks of said screw hooks being provided with wing nuts 41 by tightening which, the extension members 37 will be very securely retained in position at various adjustments. This construction permits of a more extensive adjustment than that which has been previously described and the seat is thus capable of being adjusted to a position closer to the floor than would be possible with the construction previously described. When this modification is resorted to the hook-shaped clamps 7 are provided with straps 12 which are riveted or otherwise suitably attached thereto and which constitute rear legs by means of which the seat may be supported. These straps or rear legs are made of a length approximately corresponding with the portions of the leg members 12 that extend downwardly from the seat, exclusive of the extension members 37. It will be readily seen that by loosening the wing nuts 11 the extension members may be moved upward to the positions indicated in Figs. 9 and 10 where they may be firmly secured by again tightening the wing nuts, and the device thus forms a chair the seat of which is supported at such distance above the floor that an ordinary chamber vessel may be conveniently placed beneath the same and utilized when desired.

The improved device when thus con structed, will obviously adapt itself to the locations and will be found not only c'onvenient and useful, but thoroughly clean and sanitary. It will always be found to promote the health of the child using the device by avoiding the necessity of any strained or unnatural position. The foot rest helps to support the child in a natural and easy position.

The improved device when not in use may be very readily disassembled and packed in a small space for storage or transportation.

When the modified form of the device is used in connection with an'ordinary closet bowl, the straps which constitute the rear leg members will depend from the bowl engaging clamps 7 and will depend unobstructedly adjacent to the sides of the bowl near the rear end thereof.

When the device is used in connection with a toilet seat, the hook-shaped clamps will be detached, and the straps or leg members will therefore not be in the way.

Having thus described the invention,

what is claimed as new, is

1. A device of'the character described including a seat having forwardly extending brackets, leg members connected with and extending upwardly from said brackets and spaced thereby from the seat, and a U- shaped continuous top rail connected with and supported by the leg members.

2. A device of the class described including a seat having forwardly extending brackets and rearwarclly extending clamp members, leg members connected with and extending upwardly from the brackets, and a top rail connect-ed with and supported by the leg members.

3. In a device of the class described, a seat having forwardly extending brackets, leg members connected with and extending upwardly and downwardly from said brackets and spaced thereby from the seat, the downwardly extending ends of the leg members being slotted, a continuous U-shaped top rail connected with and supported by the upwardly extending ends of the leg members, and extension members adjustably connected with the downwardly extending ends of the leg members.

4. In a device of the class described, a seat having forwardly extending brackets, leg members connected with and extending upwardly and downwardly from said brackets, a top rail connected with and supported by the upwardly extending ends of the leg members, brackets adjustably connected with the downwardly extending ends of the leg members, and a foot rest pivotally con nected with and supported between said, brackets.

5. In a device of the class described, a seat having forwardly extending brackets, leg members connected with and extending upwardly and downwardly from said brackets, extension members adjustably connected with the downwardly extending ends of the leg members, and foot rest supporting brackets adjustably connected with the downwardly extending ends of the leg membore.

6. In a device of the class described, a seat having forwardly extending brackets, leg members connected with and ext-ending upwardly from said brackets, a top rail con nected with and supported by said leg members, a flexible back and side support including a plurality of flexibly connected strips, and hook members connected with some of said strips and adapted to engage the top rail.

7 7. In a device of the class described, a seat having recesses or sockets in its upper side and provided with forwardly extending brackets, leg members connected with and extending upwardly from said brackets, a top rail connected with and supported by the leg members, a back and side support including a plurality of flexibly connected strips, some of which are provided with hook members engaging the top rail, and dowel pins extending downwardly from some of the strips and engaging the recesses or sockets in the upper side of the seat.

8. In a device of the character described, a seat having securing means including rearwardly extending longitudinally slotted strips, and hook members adjustably connected therewith, front supporting means for the seat including legs adjustable as to length, a foot rest adjustably connected with the legs, a top rail supported above the seat,

a flexible back and side support detachably connected with the top rail and the seat, and a strap detachably connected with the top rail.

9. In a device of the class described, a seat having forwardly extending brackets and rearwardly extending clamp members, angle iron stiffeners connected with the brackets and extending beneath the seat to support the same, leg members connected with and extending upwardly and clownwardly from the brackets and spaced thereby from the seat, and a top rail connected with and supported by the upwardly extending ends of the leg members.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBION K. NIXON.

Witnesses:

J. It. HUGHES, 7M. V. COWAN.

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